Thrown with Great Force

This pisses me off, too.

Maybe it’s just because I’m opinionated, and maybe it’s because freedom of speech is (this is going to sound weird) one of my favorite rights, but I think this sucks. I am, however, glad that I’m not in any way affiliated with the SEC so I can say whatever I want about it and Mike Slive and his crappy judgment without being fined. You know, since he’s “no longer interested in reprimands.”

I’m no longer interested in him or his conference or any of their Draconian and ill-advised policies. SEC football might be some of the best football in the country, but so far this season, their officiating hasn’t been. Maybe instead of muzzling coaches to keep them from making statements that might embarrass the conference in general, they should fix the officiating, which has been embarrassing all on its own.

If you make bad calls or miss significant game-changing calls, that can have a huge impact on the games and the teams involved. That includes the coaches. They’re put on the hot seat, not always rightly, when they screw up and often even when they don’t. Why shouldn’t the officials?

If there’s no one bitching about subpar officiating, there’s little reason for the conference to take a serious look at it and fix it.

Squeaky wheel gets the oil, but apparently the SEC has no interest in necessary, routine maintenance.

“Our country’s resentment, and even hatred, of well-educated, apparently affluent women is spiraling out of control…

The hatred of women — in all its archaic, phantasmagoric forms — is still alive and well in our society, and when directed at well-educated women, it’s socially acceptable, too.”

Never really considered this before, but it’s not a ludicrous argument by any means, and it really pisses me off.

FOXSports used to be my first stop for sports news, opinions, etc. I’d kinda forgotten about it, but this piece just brought me back.

Some highlights:

• Compared to the last few Heisman years, this is like going from a week of four-star steakhouse dinners to a night out at the local Sizzler. Yeah, there’s a menu, and sure, you’ll eat something but it doesn’t mean you’ll be satisfied with your filet.

• The craziest (and most frustrating) part about “The Year There Was No Heisman” is that this was supposed to be the most competitive race of all-time. Heading into 2009, we were looking at a former winner who’d thrown 50 touchdown passes and led college football’s most prolific offense of all time a season ago (Sam Bradford), a former runner-up who broke the all-time record for completion percentage last year (Colt McCoy), a former winner and two-time national champion who spent the summer being compared to Mother Teresa, Barry Sanders, and apple pie all at once (Tim Tebow), and a pair of non-quarterbacks — Cal’s Jahvid Best and Oklahoma State’s Dez Bryant — expected to tear the record books apart, one 60-yard touchdown scamper after another.

• Do we even have to give a Heisman Trophy out this year? If no one wants the darn thing, why not save it for next season and award two of them in 2010?

  We’re in a recession, people! Why not save all the money wasted on promotional materials, trips to New York, and fancy dinners until the economy — and college football — rebounds in 2010?

• If you missed it, Leach responded to the horrendous 52-30 loss to Texas A&M by telling reporters, “As coaches, we failed to make our coaching points more compelling than (the players’) fat little girlfriends,” Leach said. “Fat little girlfriends have some obvious advantages. For one thing, their fat little girlfriends are telling them what they want to hear, which is how great you are and how easy it’s going to be.” He went on and on about these “fat little girlfriends,” but you get the point.

  When asked if he’d like to apologize for the comments on Monday, he said no.

I know I’m a little late with this but really, what kind of a treatment facility is he going into? What, exactly, is the treatment for having sex with your assistant?

Is there some sort of happy spa-like place for adulterous losers with wandering penises and obviously flawed taste in women? (Jeez, if there was, it would be so crowded I’m sure I would’ve heard of it. Cheating’s a bad enough decision but cheating with someone in the workplace, someone so much younger, and/or someone who’s got the crazy is just idiotic).

And sidenote: The po-po said they’d interview this Hundley gal when “she returns from vacation.” Vacation. Vacation? YOU DO NOT GET VACATION WHEN YOU SLEEP WITH A BLATANTLY MARRIED (ALSO, SKEEVY & MUCH OLDER) MAN AND THEN DRIVE YOUR CAR ALL OVER HIS YARD WHILE TERRORIZING HIS WIFE & KIDS. Please. Save the vacation time for those of us who have to deal with people like this.

Omg. This kid is so frickin adorable. Every time I see or read an interview, I just wanna pinch his cheeks.

Sidenote: I thought it was super unusual that he gratuitously mentioned his ex-girlfriend’s name, what school she goes to, what sport she plays, and said they might get back together. I’m guessing that after he’s in the public eye a little more, that won’t happen. Also guessing that her Google hits went up a lot after this story ran.

“He’ll call me and take his anger out on me,” Glassman, 22, says in a two-part interview scheduled to air on The Insider beginning Thursday. “He has ‘mantrums.’ I shouldn’t have to put up with being emotionally abused. I cry and say, ‘Why are you so mean to me?’ ”

But she may not get a straight answer. “Sometimes he has trouble with the truth,” she says, “and he will dance and dance around his lies. He’s like Jekyll and Hyde. But I still love him.”

“She admits their relationship is “not normal,” but Glassman says she can’t imagine leaving Gosselin. “I don’t want to leave him all alone,” she says. “At the end of the day, I love him but I dislike him at times”

GIRL. NO. LISTEN TO ME. YOU ARE 22. HE HAS A WHOLE STABLE FULL OF CHILDREN, TOO MANY CLOSETS FULL OF ED HARDY SHIRTS, AND APPARENTLY A LOT OF ISSUES. GET.AWAY.NOW.

Alishan: I tried this and got a “Your request cannot be completed at this time. Please try again later” pop-up. Ugh. I have my doubts about whether it will work later.

lickystickypickyme:

just remove my tumblr. name in the url for all that to happen. (and add yours of course)
all thanks to topherchris and his genius.

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REBLOGGED B/C OMG THIS IS WHAT I WANTED MY COSTUME TO BE.

Full disclosure: I have no need for a costume this year, as I’ll be holed up at my parents, celebrating my dad’s bday with ice cream cake and *hopefully* watching the USC game. Also, I half-seriously contemplated how I could go about making a slutty Max costume, but no worries, if I was dressing up, I wouldn’t do that because it’s just so wrong on so many levels.